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Highlights of week 8 Malaysian Football developments:

FAM:

- A total of 44 players have been selected from a total of 110 players for the national Under-23 team. The squad will be reporting for their first training session on March 14-18.

- The national Under-23 team will play around 10 to 12 local and 12 to 15 international matches before 2005 SEA Games in November.

FAM & The Star:

- Selangor, led by new players like Indonesian internationals Bambang Pamungkas, Elie Aiboy, last year’s Premier League Golden Boot winner Brian Fuentes from Argentina with 25 goals, local hotshots Khalid Jamlus, Mohamed Amri Yahyah and Mohamed Harris Safwan defeated Pahang 4-1 in the first leg, first round of the 2005 FA Cup.

Local League Top 5 Goalscorers (updated as 23 Feb 2005):

Super League

Zachariah Simikonda Perlis 6
Indra Putra Mahayuddin Pahang 5
Julio Rodriguez Sabah 5
Keita Mandjou Perak 4
Fadzli Saari Pahang 3

Premier League

Brian Fuentes Selangor 7
Joshko Parac PKNS 5
Marlon Alex James MK Land 4
Bambang Pamungkas Selangor 4
Oguseye Ajayi Brunei 4

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What do you feel? You ask me, of course I said frustrated and dissapointed. Didn’t expect cash deposit machines (CDM) of different banks will fail at the same time. The error message was either “out of service” or “this machine is not accepting cash deposit”. Oh Sunday! emm… normal maintanence not inside pre-planned schedule or too many cash banked in by customer on Sat. I think that the answet I will get from customer service officer (CSO).

I remember when I was young, out of 10 coin payphones (those orange in color one), 8 is out of order. Failing modes are missing handset, coin insertion hole stucked with foreign objects, only emergency call is available, deformed display screen, coin sensor not sensative (keep rejecting my 10 sen coin, I need to use 20 sen to make a call) and some are beyond your imagination.

I thought with the launching of telephone card phone, the above problem will be solved. Too optimistic, NO NO NO, again the problem remains. My magnetic phone card, always failed to slot in the phone.

10 years later, most banks bring in CDM for convenience of customer. Some bank even charged RM8 one year for ATM card. However, payphone episode repeats itself again. We shifted to handphone in replacement of payphone.

What we can shift when all CDMs are down? No choice, I can only choose to keep my notes inside wallet, or perhaps under pillow. I have to say no to RM8.

Still reading… The seven lessons mentioned by author are:

1. Break the rules
2. Make a better product
3. The world is your labaratory
4. Offer something what user wants
5. Create and share values
6. Recruit and reward talents
7. Make money without doing evil.

Ten things Google has found to be true

1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.
2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well.
3. Fast is better than slow.
4. Democracy on the web works.
5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer.
6. You can make money without doing evil.
7. There’s always more information out there.
8. The need for information crosses all borders.
9. You can be serious without a suit.
10. Great just isn’t good enough.

“If you get free Gmail invitation from me, I hope you will giveaway Gmail invitations for free as well.” - LiewCF.com

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Highlights of week 7 Malaysian Football developments:

FAM:

- The national ‘A’ team will represent Malaysia for the OIC (Organisation of Islamic Countries) Solidarity Games in April.

- Lim Chan Yew of Selangor Public Bank, Fadzli Saari of Pahang and Mohd Syamsuri Mustafa of Terengganu will attend trials with Bournemouth FC starting from March 1st to 21st.

- The national Under-23 team will attend a training camp in Poland later in the year as part of their preparation for the SEA Games.

The Star:

- Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) have hired international auditing firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers to re-structure the association’s administrative set-up and find a full-time secretary-general.

- 2006 M-League season will kick off in December 2005. This season ends with the Malaysia Cup final on Oct 1.

(masfootball@googlegroups.com)

“Google has infiltrated its way into basic part of today’s world” - Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post, February 22, 2004

Purchased from Popular book at RM39.84 (Selling price in Taiwan NT320). Reading… To understand more about the history and success of Google. Hopefully, book review later.

I guess one of the success recipe of Google is breaking Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).

Tonight: Variably cloudy with scattered thunderstorms. Low 76F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 60%.

Did nothing on 15 February. Google remains as one of my favourite site, I normally just type anything and press the button.

Entered fifa2005 plus malaysia. I found Fifa 2005 Malaysia Patch created by Zulkhairi, an active football game patch contributor to Soccergaming. He completed this patch by early February, I guess.

Take a look at his message posted in Soccer Gaming forum. You can approach him through this forum should you need any support.

You can download this patch at http://www.geocities.com/zul_x/fifa2005/maspatch2005.zip

Here are a few shots from Zulkhairi. Thanks Zulkhairi for this great patch!

All images copyright - Zulkhairi 2005

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Limited internet access during chinese new year period… Wishing you healthy, wealthy and prosperous!

Tonight: Mainly cloudy. Low 74F. Winds light and variable.

Four star for this real-life movie. Enjoyed very much the historical flashback on how determine is Choi to become the very best fighter. Snippets on his training in woods to gain incredible strength and later, defeat many martial arts challengers to become a master of martial arts, then founder of Kyokushin karate, definitely full of breath-taking action and heart.

Masterpiece of work in slow motion action and camera positioning, beautiful with fast and slow pace intersetting in between, but I would like to get more traditional korea drums or hitting rhythm accompied along the fighting scene.

You not going to miss this, right? Aside of Kung Fu Hustle…